Bokal Jojo's Plea

Even with NPC and Marelco assurances, 30 min to 1-2 hour power outages still strike any given town of Marinduque without wwarning, and this has been the case during the last couple of weeks.

Some electric coop directors have been overheard mouthing the same old lines and lies as before. What happened to their promise to rescind the power contract with the power supplier that simply failed to deliver based on the 2005 contract? They apparently have it so good as directors or managers for as long as Marelco remains unregistered as a duly registered cooperative under CDA or SEC.

In this video Alvarez stresses that Marelcos current status has resulted in power rate increases, which has made its power rates "one of the highest in the country", with more increases in the offing. It cannot be said that Marinduque consumers are only happy to pay those increases nor do they believe that cash gifts received during elections are actual reimbursements for those taxes not turned over to tax authorities.